This volume highlights the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to understand childhood in India. It looks at a variety of sites including literature; history; socio-political contexts; legal frameworks; educational discourses, and practice and policy perspectives.
This volume highlights the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to understand childhood in India. It looks at a variety of sites including literature; history; socio-political contexts; legal frameworks; educational discourses, and practice and policy perspectives.
T. S. Saraswathi is former Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Shailaja Menon is Professor, School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Ankur Madan is Associate Professor, School of Education, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
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List of Figures and Tables. Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction I. History and Politics of Childhood 1. Colonial Modernity and the 'Child Figure': Re-configuring the Multiplicity in 'Multiple Childhoods' 2. Did Girls Have a Childhood in the Past? Mythologies, Ideologies, Histories 3. India's Children and the Brave New World II. Socio Cultural Perspectives 4. Childhood, Culture and the Social Sciences: What We Have Gained and What We maybe in the Process of Losing 5. Parent - Child Relations: Changing Contours and Emerging Trends 6. Bala Krishna: A Paradigm of Childhood Relevant to the Present Time 7. Baccha log, taali bajao: Orphans in Cinematic Imagination 8. Representing Marginalised Childhoods in Contemporary Graphic Novels and Picture Books in India III. Education and Schooling 9. Construction of Children in Indian Educational Curricular and Policy Documents (1964¿2005): Implications for Education 10. Education and Gender: A Critical Analysis of Policies in India 11. Childhood as 'Risky', and Life as 'Skills': Social Implications of Psycho-educational Programmes 12. Cultures of Fear: Children in School IV. Law, Practice, and Policy 13. Right to Childhood and Equitable Access to Justice 14. The Journey of Paediatrics from Vedic to Neoteric 15. Food and Nutrition in Childhood: Ensuring Dietary Adequacy, Diversity and Choice 16. Social Policy and Research Interface: Challenges and Prospects. Epilogue Child Rights: A Dialogue. Glossary. Index
List of Figures and Tables. Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction I. History and Politics of Childhood 1. Colonial Modernity and the 'Child Figure': Re-configuring the Multiplicity in 'Multiple Childhoods' 2. Did Girls Have a Childhood in the Past? Mythologies, Ideologies, Histories 3. India's Children and the Brave New World II. Socio Cultural Perspectives 4. Childhood, Culture and the Social Sciences: What We Have Gained and What We maybe in the Process of Losing 5. Parent - Child Relations: Changing Contours and Emerging Trends 6. Bala Krishna: A Paradigm of Childhood Relevant to the Present Time 7. Baccha log, taali bajao: Orphans in Cinematic Imagination 8. Representing Marginalised Childhoods in Contemporary Graphic Novels and Picture Books in India III. Education and Schooling 9. Construction of Children in Indian Educational Curricular and Policy Documents (1964¿2005): Implications for Education 10. Education and Gender: A Critical Analysis of Policies in India 11. Childhood as 'Risky', and Life as 'Skills': Social Implications of Psycho-educational Programmes 12. Cultures of Fear: Children in School IV. Law, Practice, and Policy 13. Right to Childhood and Equitable Access to Justice 14. The Journey of Paediatrics from Vedic to Neoteric 15. Food and Nutrition in Childhood: Ensuring Dietary Adequacy, Diversity and Choice 16. Social Policy and Research Interface: Challenges and Prospects. Epilogue Child Rights: A Dialogue. Glossary. Index
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